CfP CEELBAS Postgraduate Conference, Oxford, 17-18 March 2010

[Jaroslavna Pakstaitis]

Dear SEELANGS members,

We are still accepting submissions for this conference.  Please send your 
abstracts to the email address specified below of interested.

Russia and Eastern Europe into the 21st Century: 
Looking Back, Looking Forward

CEELBAS Postgraduate Student Conference
Wednesday 17 ¡V Thursday 18 March 2010
St. Antony¡¦s College and Wolfson College, University of Oxford

The collapse of communism was a shock; post-communist developments 
continue to surprise. With many scholars taking stock of the profound changes 
in Russia and Central/East European states since the fall of communism 20 
years ago, the Centre for East European Language Based Area Studies 
(CEELBAS) is supporting a conference on key issues in REES for postgraduate 
students from its member universities (Bath, Birmingham CREES, Cambridge, 
Kent, Manchester, Oxford REES, School of Oriental and African Studies, 
Sheffield, University College London SSEES, and Warwick). This event will be 
hosted by the postgraduate students in Oxford¡¦s Russian and East European 
Studies programme. It is hoped that this conference will enable the 
participants to engage with, and contribute to, the inter-disciplinary dialogue 
on post-communist processes of change that has been promoted by CEELBAS. 
Information about CEELBAS can be found at: http://www.ceelbas.ac.uk/ 

The one-and-a-half-day conference in Oxford is both student-run and 
student-focused. The event will be split into plenary sessions and subject-
specific split sessions. The plenary sessions will combine talks by leading 
academics and 10-minute presentations by PhD or second-year masters 
students on their ongoing research. These sessions will be centred on the 
following broad themes:
„X	Politics and International Relations
„X	Economics of Transition
„X	Identity, Ethnicity and Memory

The split sessions will be structured around more specific topics. These may 
include: Cities; Health, Wealth, Welfare and Demography; Migration and 
Diasporic Citizenship; New Dimensions of Social Inequality; Contemporary 
Cultural Processes; Foreign Policy; Knowledge-based Economies and Societies; 
Security and Energy Politics; Identities and Solidarities; Political and Economic 
Processes. Both PhD and MPhil/MRes students can apply to make 5-minute 
presentations on their research at these smaller gatherings. It is hoped that 
all participants in these sessions will benefit from the discussions in a less 
formal environment. 
Submissions: Any students who would like to make a presentation should 
submit an abstract by email to the organising committee by the deadline 
below. The abstracts should not exceed 200 words in length for plenary 
sessions and 100 words for split sessions. Please include your name, institution 
and course of study. 
Abstract Submission Deadline: 04 January 2010. Please email abstract 
submissions to: erin.kelly at sant.ox.ac.uk

This conference has been made possible by generous grants from CEELBAS, 
St. Antony¡¦s Annual Fund, Russian and East European Studies (Oxford), and 
Wolfson College. It is hoped that the costs of travel, meals and 
accommodation of student participants will be fully covered, but this will 
depend upon the number of participants. Final information on financial 
arrangements will be provided to participants by 15 February 2010.

Jana Pakstaitis
MPhil Candidate in Russian and East European Studies,
St Antony's College, University of Oxford

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